Dr Jeremy Clines

Jeremy M.S. Clines is Sheffield-born and is of colonial-Australian and Arab-Jewish descent. He received honours degrees in English and Education (Surrey) and Theology (Durham) and completed his ministerial training (Durham and at the Irish School of Ecumenics, Dublin) in the 1990’s. In his studies he gave particular attention to: Inter-faith relations; an ecological reading of Marvell’s Upon Appleton House; Post-Modernity and the Holocaust; and Role Tensions in Prison Chaplaincy. 

From 1999–2010 he was the Chaplain at York St John University. He also undertook doctoral research, at the University of Birmingham, which was situated within eco-liberationist theology: an ecotheological reading of the Church of England’s Common Worship liturgy. 

While in York he contributed to four research projects:

- ‘Arab Christian Departure to Europe’—which involved documentary filming and qualitative interviews in Jordan, Palestine, Israel and the UK.

- ‘Islamophobia in Yorkshire Schools’.

- while seconded—with Faith Communities Capacity Building funding—to be the H.E. Development Officer for the CofE Education Division his work resulted in the published report Faiths in Higher Education Chaplaincy (CofE Board of Education, 2008). 

- he co-designed a successful £250k bid to HEFCE’s Leaders, Governors and Managers fund, and helped find six partner HEIs to establish a ‘Religious Literacy Leadership in HE project’. He has continued to support the project, which has drawn in a further £200k of funding, under the directorship of SIIBS’s honorary professor Adam Dinham, prior to diversification into other sectors.

Since coming to the University of Sheffield in 2010 he has served as Anglican Chaplain (2010–2019) and now Coordinating Chaplain in the Belief, No Belief and Religious (BNBR) Life Centre. He has directed the Religion and Belief Tandem Learning programme (2011-14) and helped to establish the new Leadership, Religion and Society project in SCIBS and make the accompanying proposal for a new PGT programme (2014–2017). More recently he has become a director of Sheffield Phoenix Press which publishes exclusively in Biblical Studies (2017–present). He collaborates on the 'Sacred Texts: Child Readers' research theme (2019–present).